Lincoln Diaz-Balart: “Mr. Chairman, let us cut to the chase here. Castro is 75 years old. He collapsed a few weeks ago and those surrounding…”

“Mr. Chairman, let us cut to the chase here. Castro is 75 years old. He collapsed a few weeks ago and those surrounding him in the power clique were terrorized. His days are numbered. What we are talking about today is the future of Cuba. It is the leadership that is in prison today, Antiunez, this young man, for example, who is facing an 18-year sentence because in high school he decided to say that the regime was evil and he opposed it and he sought democracy. Or Maritza Lugo, the chairman, the president of the 30th of November Democratic Party. She and her husband are political prisoners, though they have little daughters, like the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Ros-Lehtinen) who is on the floor. Well, Maritza Lugo has two daughters, and they are both in prison, she and her husband, are both in jail, because they are leading a political party in Cuba. And Vladimiro Roca, whose father, by the way, was the founder of the communist party in the 1920s, and now he is in a dungeon, because he is the president of the Social Democratic Party, and asked for free elections.”